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Identifier
20133200
Description
Henderson "Pa" Perkins, 114-year-old African American man, an ex-slave. The clipping reads "[Perkins] was brought down from Tennessee by a judge named Truitt. That was not long after his birth in Nashville on May 9, 1838...But though Perkins was young when he came to Texas he was old enough to fulfill the role of slave. A bill of sale, reported still on record in the courthouse at Centerville, Texas, shows he was sold to Tom Garner, kinsman of former Vice President John Nance Garner...'Tom Garner freed me,' Perkins remembered. That was after the Civil War when as a slave Perkins curried cavalry horses for the South. That was after Lincoln emancipated the slaves." Published in the Morning Edition of the Fort Worth Star-Telegram newspaper, Tuesday, December 23, 1952.
Archival Date
1952-12-20
Collection Name
Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection
Collection Number
AR406-6-726
Original Format
Negatives, Black & White
File Format
JPG
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Subjects
Portrait photographs
Names
Perkins, Henderson
Subjects
Portrait photographs